RWE's subsidiary RWE npower has officially opened its new Pembroke CCGT power plant in the United Kingdom. The new plant consists of five units rated 440 MW each and will be able to produce enough power to supply 3.5 million homes. The £1bn (€1.25bn) state-of-the-art station is one of Europe’s largest and most efficient, with an efficiency rate of 58%. RWE started construction in 2009.
This commissioning follows the announcement of the expected shutdown of 2,000 MW coal-fired Didcot A power plant in Oxfordshire and of the 1,000 MW oil-fired Fawley power plant in Hampshire in late March 2013. Didcot A and Fawley Power Stations were both opted out of the EU’s Large Combustion Plant Directive, which is aimed at reducing emissions across Europe. The stations were therefore required to cease generation by the end of December 2015 at the latest or once an allocated number of operational hours were completed (20,000 hours for coal or 10,000 hours for oil.)
Fawley and Didcot A Power Stations’ open cycle gas turbines will remain operational until further notice.
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